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Now we know!

 

Many thanks for this warning, Susan. My desktop P.C. (Windows 10 Pro 22H2) is set to remain on this version using Group Policy and my laptop (Windows 10 Home 22H2) is also set to remain using your very own .reg file, which I downloaded and installed last year and which has worked so far. Is this protection likely to remain adequate, or has Microsoft found some way to overrule the attendant registry settings? I had decided to postpone the move to Windows 11 until later this year. My thanks again, TSP

I was just going by the University of Cambridge:-

https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/security/cyber-security-awareness/wfh-security/laptop-encryption-check

– Perhaps you should take it up with them?

 

 

My understanding is that Windows 10 Home Edition does not support BitLocker. I just checked online and according to MS, that is still the case.

My laptop is a Dell Windows 10 Home, currently 22H2. a very common version of Windows. My desktop is Windows 10 Pro; I have Group Policy on that. BitLocker is not installed on Windows 10 Home.

Many thanks. I realised soon after posting that I should have to turn off Secure Boot in the bios, and I don’t want to start playing around with the bios at my age!

On my Windows 10 Home 22H2 PC device encryption is not available, but Secure Boot is turned on (by default; I didn’t turn it on!). Should I turn it off before updating? Many thanks, TSP

I’m well aware of that. Following Susan’s advice, I didn’t wish to install kb4034441. I wanted it GONE! I am just delighted to have hidden it so easily.

And I understand that wushowide uses the term “fixed” to let you know it has hidden the update as requested.

Today I finally got fed up with kb4034441 failing to install on my Win10 Pro 22H2 desktop every month when I ran Windows Update and used wushowide for the first time. I ran it after I had installed the April updates and it was so blindingly easy to use, I was embarrassed to have hesitated for so long. Just to encourage anybody else who is putting it off: three clicks, less than three minutes, and kb4034441 was ‘fixed’! Simples!

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Well, I’ve just found mine. Never knew it was there before. Interesting. (Windows 10 Pro, 22H2)

Can you use these .reg files on Windows 10?

Maybe you were a bit late hiding it? kb5034441 installed on my Win.10 Home 22H2 laptop without any problem, but I remember it stayed on 0% install until the very end, and then it slipped in. Guess the counter didn’t work. But my understanding is that if it installed happily you’re good to go.

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On the other hand, kb5034441 installed quite happily to my laptop, Win10 Home 22H2 (the desktop is Pro, I forgot to say!). In the light of all I’ve read about it I had mixed feelings about that, but all other updates ran smoothly as per usual, so presumably it is for the best. I guess I just had sufficient space in the relevant partition on my laptop, but as I’ve never used Bitlocker on either device my feeling is that this patch is completely surplus to my requirements.

I’ve just updated my desktop PC (W10, 22H2) and kb5034441 failed with download error Ox80070643, which I was quite pleased about. I have now paused updates until just before patch Tuesday in March so hope to hear no more about it. We all trust MS will have fixed the problem by then!

My thinking exactly. This particular error message is not bad news; why hide what won’t install anyway?

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